As we are one in Christ, and can never be at war…

4 August will also mark a significant centenary in the history of peace

by The Friend 1st August 2014

While 4 August will be the centenary of the outbreak of first world war, it is less known that it is also a significant centenary in the history of peace.

On 4 August 1914, on the platform of Cologne station, Henry Hodgkin, a British Quaker, and Friedrich Sigmund-Schulze, a German Lutheran pastor, made a solemn farewell handshake, declaring ‘We are one in Christ and can never be at war’.